confirm

/kən'fə:m/

Thân thiện

The committee will confirm the new director at the meeting.

Definition

1. Verb:
   • To establish the truth or correctness of something: To provide evidence or proof that something is true or valid.
   • To make something definite or official: To give formal approval to something, making it binding or settled.
   • To strengthen or make more firm: To reinforce a belief, feeling, habit, or position.
   • To administer the religious rite of confirmation: To formally admit a baptized person into full membership of a Christian church.

Usage and Examples

• To establish truth:
  • Please confirm your email address by clicking the link we sent.
  • The DNA test confirmed that he was the father.
• To give formal approval:
  • The Senate will vote to confirm the new cabinet member.
  • The board confirmed the appointment of the new CEO.
• To strengthen a belief or habit:
  • Her success confirmed her belief in hard work.
  • The experience confirmed him in his decision to travel.
• Religious context:
  • She was confirmed in the church last spring.

Advanced Usage

• "To confirm someone in their...": This structure is used to indicate that an action or event strengthens a person's existing habit, belief, or position.
  • The positive feedback confirmed her in her choice of career.
• Legal/Formal Confirmation: Often used in official, legal, and business contexts to denote final authorization.
  • The judge confirmed the lower court's ruling.

Variants and Related Words

• Confirmation (n): The action of confirming something or the state of being confirmed.
  • We are awaiting confirmation of the flight time.
• Confirmed (adj): Firmly established in a habit, belief, or condition.
  • He is a confirmed bachelor.

Synonyms

• Verify: To make sure or demonstrate that something is true, accurate, or justified.
• Validate: To check or prove the validity or accuracy of something.
• Ratify: To give formal consent to a treaty, contract, or agreement, making it officially valid.
• Corroborate: To confirm or give support to a statement, theory, or finding.

Phrasal Verbs

(This word does not commonly form phrasal verbs.)

Related Idioms

• Confirm the worst: To provide evidence that one's worst fears are true.
  • The doctor's call confirmed the worst about the test results.

Học thuật

Verb

1. administer the rite of confirmation to
   • the children were confirmed in their mother's faith
2. support a person for a position
   • The Senate confirmed the President's candidate for Secretary of Defense
3. make more firm
   • Confirm thy soul in self-control!
4. strengthen or make more firm
   • The witnesses confirmed the victim's account
5. establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
   • his story confirmed my doubts
   • The evidence supports the defendant

Từ đồng nghĩa

• reassert
• corroborate
• sustain
• substantiate
• support
• affirm